Dean Ball clarifies: not about likelihood, but the one scenario certain to doom us all
deanwball · x · 2026-10-05
Dean Ball pushed back on lumpenspace's "anti-progress" accusation, clarifying he never claimed anything about the likelihood of the scenario he described — only that it is the single scenario he can imagine where he is quite certain everyone ends up screwed. He called the spin a form of thought-terminating rhetoric.
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